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18/01/21

Touch Me (1971) - Anthony Spinelli

A group of young couples and other singles arrive at an experimental ‘encounter group’ to try and solve their sexual hangups. Anything goes and everyone tries something new. Fun fact: Academy Award winning editor Michael Kahn's third thing he ever edited! Various young people have assembled to discuss and try to resolve their sexual issues. The setting is the private home of a doctor who administers the therapies. There's the guy who is insecure about his penis size. There's another guy who harbors rape fantasies. There's a bickering couple and a wife who is rather frigid and of course, the prerequisite lesbian who feels compelled to get "cured" but ends up adding a few numbers of straight women to her black book. The sex here is more clinical-both cinematically and in a literal sense as everyone learns to shed their inhibitions and express and enact their wildest fantasies.

Suckula (1973) - Anthony Spinelli

This movie is part of Alpha Blue Archive’s Satanic Sickies series.

(description from ABA):
Wacky early 70's account of Count Dracula loose in Hollywood.

It's Called Murder, Baby (1983) - Anthony Spinelli

Quote:
I really love a good porn/genre mash-up. Titles like Sex Wish or Cafe Flesh immediately come to mind not only as good porn titles but good genre films in their own right. Add to that list Anthony Spinelli’s Dixie Ray: Hollywood Star which is as perfect a send-up of private eye/noir conventions as one could hope for this side of Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid. It’s so good at being a genre film, that its toned down, R-rated cut – titled It’s Called Murder, Baby – may even be superior to its X version. Lucky for us, Vinegar Syndrome have given us both versions on DVD and newly restored at that.

Expectations (1977) - Anthony Spinelli

Synopsis:
Wealthy socialite Margo yearns for a change in her life in the wake of a divorce. Bored and unhappy, Margo decides to swap lives with free-spirited swinger Montana. However, things ultimately don't go as planned after Montana becomes involved with Margo's creepy brother Vincent.

From IMDb:
Trust adult's most accomplished "auteur", the late great "Anthony Spinelli" a/k/a Sam Weston (né Samuel Weinstein and brother of beloved comedian Jack), to point out the pitfalls in a hypothetical only-in-the-movies situation mainstream traditionally mines for laughs : two people from very different walks of life switching places willingly or otherwise. Call this a carnal cautionary tale if you will, pausing to reflect on the potential downside to an arrangement few if any among us are unlikely to encounter in real life.Historically, EXPECTATIONS slots nicely into the slew of modestly mounted chamber piece sex dramas, focused on a mere handful of expertly explored characters, Sam shot throughout the '70s. These saw him resorting to pseudonyms like "Leonard Burke" on THE FIRST TIME and CONFESSIONS OF A WOMAN or "Wes Brown" on the one two knockout sucker punch of PORTRAIT OF SEDUCTION and THE SEDUCTION OF LYN CARTER. Here, he's "Arvid Beller" and taking an apparently retrograde step although he had already hit the proverbial big time with the comparatively more lavish likes of EASY and SEX WORLD. The latter provided the genesis for this laudable little sleeper by the way, as the director had been so impressed with alluring amazon Cris Cassidy ("Suzette Holland" at the time) - briefly appearing as Annette Haven's leaving lover - that he rushed to come up with a star vehicle for the actress.